Liberating Power of Symbols e-bog
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In this new collection of lectures and essays Jurgen Habermas engages with a wide range of figures in twentieth-century thought. The book displays once again his ability to capture the essence of a thinker's work, his feeling for the texture of intellectual traditions and his outstanding powers of critical assessment.Habermas has described these essays as 'fragments of a history of contemporary...
E-bog
154,35 DKK
Forlag
Polity
Udgivet
10 december 2014
Genrer
Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000
Sprog
English
Format
epub
Beskyttelse
LCP
ISBN
9780745694337
In this new collection of lectures and essays Jurgen Habermas engages with a wide range of figures in twentieth-century thought. The book displays once again his ability to capture the essence of a thinker's work, his feeling for the texture of intellectual traditions and his outstanding powers of critical assessment.Habermas has described these essays as 'fragments of a history of contemporary philosophy'. The volume includes explorations of the work of Ernst Cassirer, Karl Jaspers and Gershom Scholem, as well as reponses to friends and colleagues such as Michael Thuenissen, Karl-Otto Apel and the writer and film-maker Alexander Kluge. It also includes pieces on the Finnish philosopher Georg Henrik von Wright and the theologian Johann Baptist Metz.This new volume will be an invaluable resource for students and scholars of Habermas and twentieth-century philosophy.